From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: block_page_mkwrite? (Re: fault vs invalidate race (Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:42:30 +1000 Message-ID: <46959516.30007@yahoo.com.au> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46957BE1.1010104@yahoo.com.au> <20070712023100.GX12413810@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Memory Management , linux-fsdevel , xfs-oss To: David Chinner Return-path: Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:35708 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932928AbXGLCmi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:42:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070712023100.GX12413810@sgi.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org David Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:54:57AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>The fault-vs-invalidate race fix. I have belatedly learned that these >>>need >>>more work, so their state is uncertain. >> >>The more work may turn out being too much for you (although it is nothing >>exactly tricky that would introduce subtle bugs, it is a fair amont of >>churn). > > > OK, so does that mean we can finally get the block_page_mkwrite > patches merged? > > i.e.: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117426058311032&w=2 > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117426070111136&w=2 > > I've got up-to-date versions of them ready to go and they've been > consistently tested thanks to the XFSQA test I wrote for the bug > that it fixes. I've been holding them out-of-tree for months now > because ->fault was supposed to supercede this interface..... Yeah, as I've said, don't hold them back because of me. They are relatively simple enough that I don't see why they couldn't be merged in this window. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.